So OK and AK are the only untainted states?
AK is tainted.
Murkowski.
20% of Alaska is Native- they pretty much block vote Democrat on order from their "Elders", and their corporations. Most of them are low info voters- knowing/following little in state, or especially, national politics. Ocer half the 730K population of Alaska live in Anchorage - assume 50% vote Dem. We are hanging Red by a hair...
Given the Native vote, any politition only needs to pick up about a third of the rest of the state vote to win.
